ATC stops take-off, averts mishap at Mumbai airport

Mumbai: A Jet Airways flight had to abort take-off on Wednesday afternoon after an air traffic control ( ATC) official noticed an IndiGo aircraft on the approach path coming in to land.
To prevent the two aircraft from getting close to each other, the controller asked the IndiGo flight to do a go-around and the Jet Airways pilot to abort the take-off.
The incident occurred around 1.30pm when Jet Airways flight 9W 2403 to Goa was rolling for take-off. The flight had 158 passengers on board. According to airport officials, the controller noticed an IndiGo flight from Nagpur approaching for landing. "The aircraft was on the approach path and the Jet Airways flight could not have taken off successfully in such a situation. So, the controller asked the departing flight to abort take-off and asked the arriving plane to do a go-around," an airport official said.
09/02/12 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India

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